Google's hardware team absorbs Nest in order to compete with Amazon

Smart home manufacturer Nest is being taken under the wing of Google. Thus, developing the products together turns out to be a feasible strategy.

The deal involves the acquisition of some 2,000 HTC engineers, including the teams that had worked together with Google in the past, which is around one-fifth of HTC's engineering workforce, and acquiring rights to HTC's designs and intellectual property.

The move will see the two join forces to "combine hardware, software and services", read an excerpt of a post on Google's blog.

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A united front could be helpful in competing with the other ubiquitous digital helpers of today - Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. Nest builds connected devices including thermostats, security cameras and doorbells that can be controlled from your mobile devices. The new structure will make it easier to integrate Google's artificial intelligence and digital assistant into new Nest products. While Assistant and Nest are already working together perfectly, Google will be looking to build its AI helper directly into Nest's cameras and thermostats. "We've leveraged AI capabilities from Google in the past, especially in the computer vision space and facial recognition", Fawaz told CNET.

The comments came as the benchmark Nikkei 225 index dipped 7.1 percent in Tuesday afternoon trading, before recovering slightly. The dollar was trading at 109.10 yen against 109.13 yen in NY , sharply lower than rates around 110 yen seen a day earlier.

Xiaomi rode strong sales in home market China, and India, where it surpassed Samsung as the leading smartphone brand in 2017. Strategy Analytics , which pegs the shipments at 29.5 million, noted that its quarterly growth is unmoved from a year ago.

Former Premier League champions Leicester City were made to play their latest fixture bereft of star winger Riyad Mahrez . According to BBC Sport , Man City thought Leicester wanted £95 million plus Patrick Roberts in exchange for Mahrez.

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In honor of black history month students are watching the movie Roots a saga of African-American life, slavery, and the Civil war. King, we must work to meet hatred with understanding; violence with peace; and discrimination with equality", said Titus.

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